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Thurman Adams, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0619
Abstract

Democratic Senator Thurman Adams, Jr., (1928-2009) was the longest-serving senator in the history of the Delaware General Assembly. Adams was also the president of T.G. Adams & Sons, Inc., an agricultural feed and grain business in Bridgeville, Delaware. The Thurman Adams, Jr., papers chronicle the personal and professional life of the longest-serving senator (a Democrat from the 19th District) in the history of the Delaware General Assembly.

Dates: 1939-2012; Majority of material found within 1960-2009

William S. Auchincloss scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0420
Abstract This one-volume scrapbook, with contents spanning 1862- 1892, includes correspondence, maps, tickets, papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, advertisements, and drawings; and was largely assembled from the professional activities of William S. Auchincloss. Evidence within the scrapbook points to the wide range of interests that captured the attention of Auchincloss, a civil and mechanical engineer, originally from New York who later resided in Wilmington, Delaware, and in...
Dates: 1862-1892

Frederic A. Blank papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0572
Abstract

The papers of centenarian, World War I veteran, and retired wall covering entrepreneur Frederic Blank, spanning close to 150 years, illustrate the varied life of a twentieth-century businessman and provide important sample books of iconic mid-twentieth-century American wall coverings.

Dates: 1866-1991; Majority of material found within 1917-1974

Rita Katz Farrell collection related to dance

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0430
Abstract

Reference and research files that Rita Katz Farrell compiled during her career as a critic, freelance writer, and teacher.

Dates: 1920-1993; Majority of material found within 1950-1993

Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0646
Abstract The Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material comprises approximately 1.6 linear feet of material pertaining to English bibliographer, book collector, and forger Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937). Much of the collection's material was compiled by English bibliographer and book collector John Carter (1905-1975), who co-authored with Graham Pollard (1903-1976) An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), which effectively outed Wise as a...
Dates: 1897-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1934-1975

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0431
Abstract

The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger’s trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

Dates: 1909

The Press of A. Colish archives

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0358
Abstract

The Press of A. Colish archives contains materials relating to the printing career of American fine printer and publisher Abraham Colish (1882–1963).

Dates: 1913–1990; Majority of material found within 1930s–1950s

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Correspondence 5
Ephemera (general) 4
Maps (documents) 4
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Photographs 3
Scrapbooks 3
Articles 2
Broadsides (notices) 2
Galley proofs 2
Handbills 2
Notes 2
Page proofs 2
Postcards 2
Programs (documents) 2
Tickets 2
Agriculture--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--21st century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Authors, American--19th century 1
Awards 1
Bibliographers 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Books 1
Brazil--Description and travel 1
Bridgeville (Del.) 1
Business letters 1
Businesspeople 1
Buttons (information artifacts) 1
Camp Zachary Taylor (Ky.) 1
Cards (information artifacts) 1
Chapbooks 1
Civil engineering--History--19th century 1
Collectors 1
Color photographs 1
Cruise ships--History--20th century 1
Dance--United States--History 1
Delaware 1
Delaware--Politics and government--20th century 1
Delaware--Politics and government--21st century 1
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Drawings (visual works) 1
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Freemasons--20th century 1
Freemasons--21st century 1
Graphic design (Typography)--United States--History--20th century 1
Inventors--United States--History--20th century 1
Judicial records 1
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Letters (correspondence) 1
Literary forgeries and mystifications--History--19th century 1
Literary forgeries and mystifications--History--20th century 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
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Mechanical engineering--History--19th century 1
Membership cards 1
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Menus 1
Military training camps--Kentucky--Louisville--History--20th century 1
Negatives (photographic) 1
Newspapers 1
Ocean travel--History--20th century 1
Passports 1
Performing arts--United States--History--20th century 1
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Research notes 1
Reviews (document genre) 1
Sample books 1
Schedules (time plans) 1
Scrapbooks--United States--History--20th century 1
Soldiers 1
South America--Description and travel 1
Telegrams 1
Theater--History--20th century 1
Trade cards (advertising) 1
Transcripts 1
Travel--United States--19th century 1
Visiting cards 1
Wall coverings--United States--History--20th century 1
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American. 1
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Names
A. Colish (Firm) 1
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart), 1842-1928 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Blank, Frederic A., 1890-1992 1